Kong Sang had been silently calculating the time. Seeing that it was almost time, she removed Lin Changli's hand. The broken leg bone in Si Yu's body had already grown back, and the changes in his flesh and blood had not yet stopped...
Her peach-blossom eyes darkened: "The mutation failed."
Yu Wei's eyes were red-rimmed, and her body was stiff with a heavy heart.
Having spent years together in the apocalypse and then returned to the modern world together, how could they possibly bring themselves to do this?
Kong Sang observed everyone's expressions, knowing full well that her heart's blood was useful, and prepared that these people would forcibly extract it from her, but... no one chose to lay a hand on her...
I don't know what she was feeling, but Kong Sang felt that she was happy, and a corner of her hardened heart seemed to have softened.
He reached out and said, "Lan Ye, bring me the crystal."
Lan Ye took out a small handful of colorful crystals, put them in her hand, and chuckled, "I knew you wouldn't be willing to part with such a high-quality backup."
Kong Sang curled her lips, picked up Lin Changli's dagger, slashed her wrist, and sprayed blood onto the small crystal.
The hard crystal seemed to melt instantly, flowing down with the blood and dripping onto Si Yu's wounds and bones as he struggled on the ground...
I originally wanted to collect more crystals to develop gene-based medicine, but now it's all wasted...
"boom"
As drops of blood containing crystals dripped down, Si Yu's entire body burst into flames, which shot skyward. His clothes, hair, and eyebrows vanished in the blink of an eye, and then…
Lin Changli's face darkened, and he immediately covered Kong Sang's small face tightly with his other hand, pressing down on his still bleeding wrist.
Yu Wei covered her eyes, but a big smile appeared on her lips. Her superpower had been upgraded, which meant that Si Yu had been reborn. How wonderful!
Unaware of how long the flames had been burning, the surrounding temperature continued to rise. With her eyes closed, Kong Sang Yuwei heard Si Yu's energetic voice again.
"Damn it, how did I turn into a featherless chicken? This is so damn ugly!"
"Hurry up, all three of you take off a piece of clothing and give it to me. I don't need your underwear, it's disgusting."
"Damn it, Lan Ye, what the hell do you mean by taking off one sock? Give me your pants, aren't you wearing long johns?"
"Huh? Nobody's wearing long johns... Well, I can't just go around naked, especially since there are women here. Okay, okay, I'll just use my clothes as pants for now."
When the two women saw the light of day again, they couldn't help but burst into laughter upon seeing Si Yu's new look.
His head was brighter than a light bulb, and he didn't have a single hair on it. His eyebrows and eyelashes were gone, but his upper body was relatively normal.
The lower body was covered in someone else's T-shirt, with the arms used as pant legs. Even that wasn't long enough, leaving two clean, hairless white legs exposed, which was quite alluring and eye-catching.
Watching Lin Changli bandage Kong Sang's wrist, Si Yu's eyes flashed with a complex expression for a moment before he quickly returned to his usual nonchalant demeanor: "Thank you, Kong Sang. I knew you couldn't bear to part with me."
Kong Sang nodded: "It's true that I'm reluctant to part with you. I've come this far with great difficulty, and the arena against the Nie family has just begun. You are all very important to me."
"If I want to replace the Nie family, I need absolute supporters from the military, government, and business circles. Since you didn't choose to sacrifice me to save Si Yu, I will return the favor."
The group fell silent. Lan Ye asked curiously, "What would you have done if they had forced their way in?"
Kong Sang blinked: "Why ask about things that haven't happened? Hurry up and get out of here. You continue to help me find crystals and produce gene drugs. We can't do without that stuff."
"Tch, they actually treat me like a subordinate, how shameless."
Kong Sang raised his chin and said, "Let me remind you, the effects of the bandage last a long time, but three months is the limit. If you don't take it on time, it will turn into blood!"
Lan Ye's eyes were deep and dark: "I didn't eat the bandages."
Kong Sang joked, "Oh, I forgot to tell you, you injected my lifeblood. This is much more potent than taking bandages. Si Yu will have to rely on bandages to live from now on."
Yu Wei's expression changed drastically: "Could it be that the Nie family's gene therapy drugs were all developed from your blood? Such a huge amount... how is that possible?"
"Wow, what an amazing idea! You're the real heiress of the Nie family. I have high hopes for you. Keep digging into the secrets of the Nie family. As long as you survive in the Nie family, you'll eventually find out everything."
Lan Ye's expression darkened: "You asked me to collect crystals, is it because they're essential for developing gene-based drugs? The gene-based drug 'factor,' which no country can replicate, is it the crystals, or your blood?"
Kong Sang perfectly mimicked Si Yu's nonchalant attitude, and said infuriatingly, "Guess?"
Lan Ye was so angry that he simply stopped talking. After spending some time with Nie Kongsang, he could tell that the girl had some kind of serious illness.
Yu Wei spoke very quickly: "Who told you that Tianhuang Village has crystals?"
Kong Sang rolled his eyes and said, "I had a dream. In my dream, I was the emperor, and I had a disobedient personal eunuch who didn't know how to protect me and just liked to ramble on about random things."
【Ha!】The system's voice carried a chill.
Knowing she wouldn't get any answers, Yu Wei lowered her head, unsure whether she felt sadness or something else...
Si Yu chuckled: "I think you're obsessed with becoming an emperor. If only you had been born in ancient times, you'd be better off not thinking about it in modern times. We'll talk about these things when we get back. Right now, getting past Tianhuang is going to be tough."
Si Yu's situation was completely different from the others. As soon as he stepped into Tianhuang Village, a fire broke out on the back mountain. At the time, he didn't think much about it. As a soldier of the People's Liberation Army, he naturally joined the firefighting efforts.
When he rushed up the back mountain, he found that the people from Tianhuang Village were not in a hurry at all; he was the only one who had foolishly rushed up there.
He also encountered some severely mutated creatures and almost lost his life. After descending the mountain in a sorry state, the people of Tianhuang Village said that he was an honored guest and that the priest wanted to see him.
Si Yu felt too passive, knowing nothing, so she didn't dare to go directly to see him. Instead, she lied and said she wasn't feeling well and would rest for a day before going.
I randomly found a family to stay with, and sure enough, I made an unexpected discovery.
In the dead of night, the family took food to the cellar. Si Yu followed them and discovered that the creature he had encountered on the mountain was being secretly kept by this family.
Si Yu appeared, subdued the people, and interrogated them before learning that almost everyone in Tianhuang Village was a traveler from elsewhere. The original inhabitants had all been mutated, and the others had been infected and had no choice but to stay to survive.
The mutants they raised were their closest relatives, and it was the priests who infected them.
"So you went to see the priest, and you went into the wooden hut in the middle of the pond?"
Si Yu wiped his face and said, "Don't even mention it. I was planning to catch him and see what was going on, but as soon as I got close to the pool, the mutated genes in my body started to go berserk, and my whole body felt like it was being cooked."
"Besides jumping into the pool, I couldn't think of any other way to cool down. That's how I ended up here. I was in terrible physical condition, completely out of it. Plus, I was being chased by those stinky rats, so I was really in a sorry state."
"I barely escaped the rat swarm, and before I even figured out what happened, my right leg started burning—it was beyond my control. To survive, I had no choice but to have my leg amputated..."
"Gene countermeasures!" Kong Sang exclaimed excitedly.
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